Monitoring S3 uploads for a real time data

If you are working on Big Data and its bleeding edge technologies like Hadoop etc., the primary thing you need…

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Hope vs. Motivation: Why Big Data needs empathy and emotion

Because, – says Om Malik, one of the most extraordinary thinkers on Silicon Valley and the  founder of GIGAOM – The…

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Big Data 2013 Predictions

If you just invested a lot of money in a Big Data solution from any of the traditional BI vendors…

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Hadoop Hangover: Launch a hadoop cluster CDH4 using Apache Whirr

This post is about how-to launch a CDH4 MRv1 or CDH4 Yarn cluster on EC2 instances. It’s said that you…

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MapReduce Algorithms – Secondary Sorting

We continue with our series on implementing MapReduce algorithms found in Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce book. Other posts in…

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Calculating A Co-Occurrence Matrix with Hadoop

This post continues with our series of implementing the MapReduce algorithms found in the Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce book.…

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How to be Big Data-native?

Big data has spawned a set of tools that deliver results beyond the buzz. It has started delivering real insights…

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Hadoop + Amazon EC2 – An updated tutorial

There is an old tutorial placed at Hadoop’s wiki page: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/AmazonEC2, but recently I had to follow this tutorial and…

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Lets Crunch big data

As developers our focus is on simpler, effective solutions and thus one of the most valued principle is “Keep it…

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